Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

Jun 5, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Nisrine Mbarki |Alfred Schaffer |Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

Black and White: Three Poems In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents’ life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship. Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison

May 22, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Alfred Schaffer |Isabella Corletto |Wesley Lewis |Babeth Fonchie Fotchind

a woman is a woman because of a womangrandmother uses a stick to draw a pattern in the copper sand, sendsa signal to god by way of three half moons. recently she spoke tothe seer, he shook a bag of palm seeds twenty-one times.